The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-04

Old Campaigner.
If good feeling exists, as is claimed
Dy the Repu blican press, between the |
Blaine and Sherman factions. the fol !
lowing interview of the correspondent
Of tue Toledo Bee with General John
Beatty, at Columbus, on the 9th u't
would lead one to suppose that the
admirers of Sherman are not wholly
with "good feeling" toward
the "Plumed Knight" and would
hardly don somber apparel to denote
their sorrow in the event of Blaine's
political corpse being consigned to
the tomb, even were his grave dug by
a Democratic sexton:
- COLUMBUS, o., July q.
This morning thu Bee representative
called on General John Beatty at his
place of business, and his visit was
productive of the following interview:
II see that you are opposed to Blaine
Now, is it not true. that he is the only
Republican who would get the Irish
vote, anu Is Lie IOC, tuGTCIOIc, Ih0 AOot
available candidate?"
"Well, as to that, have to say, if
the Irish question and the Irish vote
are the main things to be sought for.
then Mr.. Blaine had better seek Office
in ireland. This is America, and the
men on whom we depend in a.nation-
al election are American citizens. In
fishing for big fish it is not best to cast
our net in pool, ,bnt to seek the broad
er and deeper waters of the sea For
every vote the knight of the Plume
would get by u direct appeal to Catho-
lie Irish Democrats, he would lose
three votes of Protestant American
Republicans. A vote based solely on
personal grounds, not on principle, is
sure to be off set by other votes SINH
larly founded. Magnetic men may
have their good points, but while the
positive pole of the magnet attracts,
the negative repels, and, as in the case
of mule, one often doubts which ead
is the bigger nuisance Some people
many, In fact--think the Plumed
Knight is immense because he carries
one of the STATES of the Union in Als
breeches pocket with his jackknife
and tobacco. Their deduction from
| the premises. however, is wholly
Il
| is not much above the general average
of public men, but the things he car
ries with him are exceedingly small,
If, however, he We're bigger aud heets
/ than he is, should still hesitate tU
back q Presidential horse entered,
groomed and ridden by such blow
hards as 8. B. Elkins and Tom Don
aldson." Sa@-
1 but how about the Southern ques
| tion? Is not Blaine in this respect
more acceptable to you than Sher.
man ?n
j 1T is not true at this time thai
Blaine stauds better on the Southern
question than Sherman, nor was II
6, ue in 1880 He had helped to defeal
the only measura which could afford
protection to the colored voters of the
South. The whole party then had, te
some extent, become demoralized or
this subject, and was apparently in
different to the appeals of the freed
men, but with all its defects il was in
finitely better than the rebel Democ
racy, and it was important not onl!
that it should triumph over the soil,
South, but that it should succeed il
defeating the third term movement
within its own ranks, and thus pre-
1
precedent. Blaiue is not by.any meaD
as strong as he was in 1880. Thos
who know him best. and people ar
getting TO know him pretty well
know that he is a political Jesuit
courteous in manner, cordial and plau
; sible in speech, but silent. crafty an
unscrupuous in the promotion of hI
: schemes protesting open friendship
| while stabbing secretly, keen in hi
scent of money, not particular as t
the modes of its acquisition, aud Law
{ ish in its expenditure for his own pr
I litical advancement. BTainy and fel
tile in resource, with an element c
T meanness so audacious that it does nc
T always provide against exposure. II
was Garfleld's evil genius, his detrat
tor while living, and most eloqueI
{ eulogist when dead. He involved hi
administration in needless and dis
tressipg complications, from the effect
d of which the country is still sutfe rine
: He used the power conferred by hig
official position to enforce his prival
aniinosities and execute personal ver
geanee. He encouraged his followin
: of halfbreeds to strike down Secretar
Folger for being stalwart, and ther'
4 by elected Clevelond Governor of Ne
IOTha ny . MdJOiley Vi %oV,Ooot anu n.
it in the power of the solid South
r obtain control of the executive offic
He will never be forgiven in full fC
i this treachery, and he never ought
n be. His nomination in 'SS would sin
It ply multiply the Mugwumps of Ne
e England by ten, and these would
!. reinforced by every Northern Stat
It by better Republicans than Blaine e
l. er was. He cannot carry New Yor
It he couldn't touch bottom in Indian
II and it is doubtful even if he cou
Y again. carry Ohio. In short, he is
Plumed Knight who does his fightiI
l. with his jaw, and employs substitu
D. to incur the risks of battle. We ha
- carried him on our shields too loni
81 it is time now to prod him with o
"a spears. The people have had enouG
d of him and his spotted record"
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